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In every instance where this feed is employed for 

 the purpose of being converted into beef, mutton, 

 butter, etc., the effective value of the grain is greater 

 than we have estimated it, and will give a higher re- 

 sult. If the entire product of the above acre were 

 used for fattening purposes, the aggregate feeding 

 value would be from two to three tons higher than 

 the estimate here given. 



It will perhaps be said by some, that one hundred 

 bushels of corn per acre is an uncommon yield, quite 

 out of the ordinary range, and that most farmers 

 therefore would not be able to realize the above re- 

 sult. From this opinion, or rather from the inference 

 in the last clause, we must beg leave to differ. "We 

 do not believe that there is a farmer in the United 

 States who is not able to raise one hundred bushels of 

 corn per acre. He may lack the knowledge, or the 

 resolute purpose, and there are many who lack both. 

 But where these are both present, the ability is not 

 wanting. 



The farmer who makes up his mind to raise one 

 hundred bushels of corn on an acre, will generally do 

 it. He who begins by saying he is " not able," will 

 certainly not do it. He will take good care to keep 

 his word. Such men are usually very tender of their 

 veracity. Those who are continually proclaiming to 

 the world, when any thing comes up to be done, that 

 they are " not able " to do it, have invariably one ad- 

 vantage. They require no logic to prove their asser- 

 tion. The world is always ready to believe them. 



